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Topic: "hue" remote support? (Read 3377 times)

I just picked up somewhere that hue support is coming soon, great to hear!Started to wonder where my current remotes I use to control my lights fit in this picture. Its a remote control similar to the ones that come with the living color lights that are bit more common. There are varieties out there with color/brightness ring/buttons and a number of scene buttons. I won 2 kits at work with 2 dimmable CFL lights and 1 remote, kind of a predecessor to the current hue products. With the remote I can link these lights to the hue bridge (not an easy procedure) but they can be all be controlled harmoniously through the hue hub.The latest models use ZigBee I guess? I believe the device controls the lights directly and not via the hue hub. I don't know what role is used, is this a controller? Or just a remote?Either way, it would be great if at least the scenes and slider could be linked to the almond+.

« Last Edit: August 28, 2014, 12:26:02 pm by Mike »

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LGNilsson

The support we're working on is for the Hue hub, as we can't talk directly to the Philips devices due to them being ZigBee Light Link and not ZigBee Home Automation. Our apps and local/cloud UI's will be able to communicate with the Hue hub which is then dealing with all the Hue devices, so in your case, none of this should be a problem.

On a side note, we've got one of the thermostats you got in the picture as well and we'll be adding support for it in a future firmware update.

LGNilsson

Philips kind of messed up, as they don't have fallback support for ZigBee HA, unlike Osram Sylvania and GE, both of which work just fine with the Almond+. Admittedly they're not colour changing bulbs, but either option is a lot cheaper. We're also waiting for the Belkin bulbs to see if they will work or not.